Unfair to Royal Mail! They have
a right to unconscionable profit, don't they;
PROFITS at Royal Mail have plummeted following the government’s cheap
sell-off of the service to privateers, the company revealed yesterday.
The
firm blamed the “harsh realities” of competition for the pre-tax profit
fall to £218 million in the six months to September 28 from £233m a
year earlier.
Royal Mail’s shares slumped 8 per cent yesterday and are down 30 per cent from a peak in February.
We can't have the market immiserating those investors, can we?
CWU
[Communications Workers Union] deputy general secretary Dave Ward said: “We need (regulatory body)
Ofcom to perform its primary statutory duty by urgently reviewing the
threat competition poses to the universal postal service.
“We’d
like to see a cap put on competition to Royal Mail. The results today
are proof that direct delivery competition is damaging the financial
sustainability of the universal postal service.”
Comrade.
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